[gentoo-user] Re: photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Calvin Spealman
KimDaBa is an exccelent way to organize a large collection of images. On 6/6/05, Oscar Carlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last time I tried f-spot it crashed on me, it didn't matter what versions of > > f-spot and mono I ran... :( > It might have been a User Error (tm)... :-) > > måndagen den

[gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
This is a shame, for sure. Being able to build binary packages with portage, that can include such meta-information, would be a huge asset to using gentoo as a meta-distribution, as it is so often claimed to be. On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:01 -0500

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild digest is complaining about no PF

2005-05-17 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 5/17/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:45:05 -0400 > Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > I'm trying to create an updated ebuild for treeline-0.12.0, to take > > advantage of the new install scripts it uses. I'm having

[gentoo-user] ebuild digest is complaining about no PF

2005-05-17 Thread Calvin Spealman
I'm trying to create an updated ebuild for treeline-0.12.0, to take advantage of the new install scripts it uses. I'm having a bit of trouble generating a digest, however, with ebuild digest. It is complaining that part of the name or the version is missing, and then that PF is null or "", and it b

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 things vhost directories are not directories?

2005-05-16 Thread Calvin Spealman
I've gotten it all set up just fine now, although I think I need to read more up on the Directory settings, for some more fine-grained permissions, but it works now. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. On 5/15/05, sIbOk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look to this thread, maybe it helps to yo

[gentoo-user] Apache2 things vhost directories are not directories?

2005-05-15 Thread Calvin Spealman
With the following vhost.conf, I'm getting an error "DocumentRoot must be a directory", and the two document roots I'm using do, in fact, exist. Does anyone know why Apache2 would think they are not directories? NameVirtualHost * ServerName www.ironfroggy.com ServerAlias ironfroggy.com www.ironfr

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp not accepting anonymous users

2005-05-14 Thread Calvin Spealman
would override your command. I have checked, and it is only set once, to YES. > On 5/13/05, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have set the anoymous_enable=YES in vsftp.conf, but it still is not > > accepting anonymous users. I have also restarted the server. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Calvin Spealman
Along the lines others have suggested, with using du to what is taking up all of your space, another useful technique I found is to use the KFileSizeView in Konquerer. It gives you a very nice visual of what is taking up how much relative space on the harddrive. On 5/13/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] vsftp not accepting anonymous users

2005-05-13 Thread Calvin Spealman
I have set the anoymous_enable=YES in vsftp.conf, but it still is not accepting anonymous users. I have also restarted the server. I have tried both anonymous and ftp, using valid e-mail addresses as passwords. Is there another step I am missing to properly enable this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Naming servers on a network with one IP

2005-05-12 Thread Calvin Spealman
as Neil, suggested. The behavior I was seeing is that I did not set the hostname in apache's config, but set it to hostname . On 5/12/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 02:34 -0400, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > ive got a network question. i have

Re: [gentoo-user] Naming servers on a network with one IP

2005-05-12 Thread Calvin Spealman
This is as I had hoped, and maybe I'm doing something wrong, but if I don't give my boxes a proper domain name, apache and postfix will not start. They complain about the domain name and bail out. On 5/12/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005 02:

[gentoo-user] Naming servers on a network with one IP

2005-05-11 Thread Calvin Spealman
ive got a network question. i have a few machines on my local network, but only one IP. I can congure my router for all the proper port forwarding for my server, but hostnames is giving me some confusion. To run a lot of things properly, such as Apache and Postfix, i need a qualified hostname conf

Re: [gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-11 Thread Calvin Spealman
Vex looks nice, I'm looking into that now, myself. Thanks Matthew. On 5/11/05, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/11/05, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been looking for something along these lines, myself, although > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-11 Thread Calvin Spealman
I've been looking for something along these lines, myself, although I'm also looking for one that does WYSIWYG based on arbitrary XSLTs. Anyway, I've looked around and found a few things. Jaxe looks like a promising possibility, over at http://jaxe.sourceforge.net/. It can validate based on a sche

Re: [gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

2005-05-09 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 5/9/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin, you're whole problem appears to be that the email on the list should > be modified to support your own desires. Posting in html because you prefer > it. Top posting to responses rather than scrolling to the bottom of the > quoted text

Re: [gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

2005-05-09 Thread Calvin Spealman
The replies would include instructions for which sections of the original messages to quote. On 5/9/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005 16:56:09 +0000, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > If the mailers follow the proper multipart protocols and also m

Re: [gentoo-user] Blue video playback

2005-05-09 Thread Calvin Spealman
aptop screen, but only a "frame" around a bluescreen > on the original monitor. Does this give a clue? > > BillK > > > On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:57 +, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > This happens a lot. Currently, video playback using anything other > > tha

Re: [gentoo-user] This email best viewed with IE 6.5 at 800X600 resolution

2005-05-08 Thread Calvin Spealman
ld come to the conclusion that we should all still run nothing but command lines and pass our information around on FTP and Gopher servers. On 5/8/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin Spealman schreef: > > 1) I don't see how this should have anything to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Blue video playback

2005-05-08 Thread Calvin Spealman
ck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin Spealman schreef: > > This happens a lot. Currently, video playback using anything other > > than glmovie results in a blue screen. Audio plays fine on the videos, > > however. Usually when this happens, the only thing that fixes it are

[gentoo-user] Blue video playback

2005-05-08 Thread Calvin Spealman
This happens a lot. Currently, video playback using anything other than glmovie results in a blue screen. Audio plays fine on the videos, however. Usually when this happens, the only thing that fixes it are a few 'emerge world' sessions. I don't know what package is causing it, because its affectin

Re: [gentoo-user] This email best viewed with IE 6.5 at 800X600 resolution

2005-05-08 Thread Calvin Spealman
tched within that time, if you couldn't be bothered to do a simple upgrade. On 5/7/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:56:09PM +0000, Calvin Spealman wrote > > > then support for it can grow until everyone will have updated just > >

[gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

2005-05-07 Thread Calvin Spealman
to update to said > newer versions *or* programs if/When! -their- favorite didn't get > updated for this. > > That said, it sounds like a FINE idea to me. > > Now, where'd I put that blamed crowbar? > > rgh. > > Calvin Spealman wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-05 Thread Calvin Spealman
messages and replying to multiple messages at once. Always there is room to move forward, so find the door that need's unlocked and break it down. On 5/5/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > >it isn't like the bandwidth is any

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is arrogant about saying "when in Rome..."? Every forum has its > conventions of accepted behaviour. For this forum. those conventions > include non-HTML postings in English. And what did they do in Rome if you did not do as in Rome? They

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
MS? What makes you think I have anything to do with Microsoft or Microsoft software? My HTML messages are sent straight from good-ole gmail. On 5/3/05, Greg Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but I > > just find

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
I believe this tradition, and other's like it which hold on to old idioms for little sensible reason, are more of a challenge to the community values than anything I can say. On 5/3/05, Covington, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bottom line is that on any technical mailing list, it's tradit

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
Let's be honest, that's a fault of e-mail itself, which is inherently a horrible protocol anyway. I'm just saying lets do the best we can with what we've got. it isn't like the bandwidth is anything at all compared to the bloated headers and redundant repeating of messages in every reply. On 5/3/0

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
I'm sorry if this disagreement has escalated more than it should have, but I'm actually very partial to my end of this discussion. I know all the reasons people have to argue against my point of view here, but I just find it to be a rather arrogent point of view. On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
You can put the file in /usr/portage/distfiles, or set its location as the distfiles directory.On 5/3/05, michael higgins < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hey, all.> > I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation.> > At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and al

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables HTML, then ever

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Calvin Spealman
ASCII? OK... talking about plain text is one thing, but ASCII? That's just dumb. If you are going to use plain text, at least agree that we need something better than ASCII. There are people speaking other languages you know. Thinking we should stick to ASCII is even more a sign of your stubborness

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
Going by the same reasons of client differences, one could argue we never should have extended HTML beyond the first version of Mosaic. This is insane, of course. Progress is a driving force of technology. I use HTML to style code samples in my postings, and to add some pizaz when e-mailing friend

[gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
I know people say it, but why? On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if > > otherwise. > > No. There is no detection. Just assumption that AMD65 wil

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if otherwise. OK, now I get it. The way it had been said, I just got the impression there was something different going on. Thanks for clearing up the confusion.On 5/2/05, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-01 Thread Calvin Spealman
azy because I'm just missing something here.On 4/30/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:29:36 + Calvin Spealman< [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:| Are the things that are automatically enabled for compilation| different than  the things the USE fl

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
rt it. Right now, if you compile mplayer, you'll get MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNOW and all that crap. Just there are no special USE flags for it.On 4/30/05, Kiawud < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:54:57 + Calvin Spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages

2005-04-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
lay?>> From: Calvin Spealman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Date: 2005/04/29 Fri PM 02:45:49 EDT> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages >> For a few packages, currently k3b and koffice, portage is seeing the

[gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages

2005-04-29 Thread Calvin Spealman
For a few packages, currently k3b and koffice, portage is seeing the newest version as being 5. These versions don't exist, and portage chokes very badly on installing or updating the packages. Does anyone know where it might be getting these faulty version numbers, or where I need to look to fix i

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-29 Thread Calvin Spealman
i dont understand whats going on here. I thought those flags enabled the use of extended sets of the x86 instruction set, and amd64 chips are in the x86 family, aren't they? and they support those extensions, I'm sure, so what then do those flags do that the amd64 can't make use of the flags?On 4/2

Re: [gentoo-user] The LiveCD as the workstation

2005-04-29 Thread Calvin Spealman
The Ramdisk option eliminates the need for two CD drives in most situations (not a good idea for low-memory systems), and I've seen others use this kind of setup in tandem with a USB key drive for storage.On 4/29/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've read a little about how custom LiveCDs can b

[gentoo-user] koffice build failing again

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
I'm gettting more errors from KOffice. I fixed previous errors by updating image magick (should the dependancies of koffice be updated because of that?), but I can't find so easy a solution with the following output. Anyone have a suggestion?  I think I'm still battling with the remenents of the co

[gentoo-user] KOffice version... 5?

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
Does anyone know why portage is building KOffice version 5 right now? Last I checked, that release date was scheduled about a decade in the future, or some time around there...

[gentoo-user] koffice build failing

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
After finally fixing portage so I can run updates again, I ran into another (probably unrelated) hitch. KOffice is having some trouble compiling. I'm seeing errors that might suggest the wrong version of Image Magick is being used? Does anyone else agree? If that is the case, I don't know what vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-27 Thread Calvin Spealman
I meant a terminal emulator. Just that with 99 packages, I know something won't build right. As a matter of fact, just read my next post!On 4/26/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:16:21 +0000, Calvin Spealman wrote:> A month + with no updates, leaves

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-26 Thread Calvin Spealman
/05, Edward Catmur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:21 +, Calvin Spealman wrote:> See, thats part of the problem: there is no package called 'mad'.> There is gnomad and madplay, but no package just called 'mad'. I had> the same trouble w

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-25 Thread Calvin Spealman
ie. emerge -C mad emerge sync emerge -avt k3bWOn Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:41:01PM +, Calvin Spealman wrote:> Well, everything went fine until I tried to install k3b again, and I still > get the error about:> Calculating dependencies -> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "&

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-25 Thread Calvin Spealman
Well, everything went fine until I tried to install k3b again, and I still get the error about: Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=media-sound/mad-0.14.2b-r1". On 4/25/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Calvin Spealman wrote:> !

[gentoo-user] Portage corrupted? Trying to install non-existant packages

2005-04-25 Thread Calvin Spealman
I've been having some trouble with portage for over a month now, but I've also been in the middle of a move across several states. Finally having my box set up again, I'm ready to tackle the strange issues I'm finding. I need some help, I've gotten some of the problems out of the way, but they alwa